Filmmaker Robert Mac follows two seasons in the career of the DC Divas, one of the Women's Football Association's various all-female football teams, playing "America's game" seriously (other franchises include the Atlanta Phoenix, the Fresno Dark Phoenix, and the San Diego Surge). This is no gimmicky "Lingerie League," or even a cheerfully camped-up affair such as the various revived women's "roller-derby" brawlers.
We are informed that the persistence of a women's football league back be traced back to 1967 but is entirely self-financed and has gotten no attention from the money-soaked NFL—except when the Mens' League sued and forced a change of acronym from the NWFL to the WFA.
Mac's lens follows the DC players through training, rough-talk coaching (R-rated language is common; the B-word ubiquitous), injuries, a few broken romances, fond memories of late coach Ezra Cooper, and the curio that current quarterback Allyson Hamlin is the daughter of the team owner Paul Hamlin (she works hard all the same, though viewers might note Paul Hamlin's name prominent among the documentary producers).
The Divas persevere through an undefeated season to the finals, against formidable pushback from their opponents, Dallas. These are, by any estimation, "smashmouth" women athletes, of all body types and various races, although a sizable lesbian representation on the team allows filmmakers to insinuate LGBT-empowerment issues (then-President Barack Obama is shoehorned in as a sort of totem of inclusivity).
The key question, as to whether this would stand next to a given male-centric gridiron documentary, is a resounding yes, and that would seem to be the point. End credits include a complete roster of all the contemporary WFA teams, coaches as well as players. The refs would call this a champion-level addition to sports shelves as well as women's/gender studies collections. (Aud: C, P)